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The Red Fairy Book, The Giant Breaks His Neck., sentence 28

‘If you had looked at the gigantic Beanstalk and only stupidly wondered about it,’ she said, ‘I should have left you where misfortune had placed you, only restoring her cow to your mother.

Who acts: you, Fairy, I · What happens: look, wonder, say, leave, place, restore · To what, where: you, misfortune, cow, mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Giant Breaks His Neck.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Fairy, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

punctmarknsubjauxccompcasedetamodoblccadvmodadvmodconjcaseoblpunctpunctnsubjpunctpunctnsubjauxauxconjiobjadvmodnsubj:passauxadvclobjpunctadvmodadvclnmod:possobjcasenmod:possoblpunctroot‘PUNCTIfSCONJyouPRONhadAUXlookedVERBatADPtheDETgiganticADJBeanstalkPROPNandCCONJonlyADVstupidlyADVwonderedVERBaboutADPitPRON,PUNCT’PUNCTshePRONsaidVERB,PUNCT‘PUNCTIPRONshouldAUXhaveAUXleftVERByouPRONwhereADVmisfortuneNOUNhadAUXplacedVERByouPRON,PUNCTonlyADVrestoringVERBherPRONcowNOUNtoADPyourPRONmotherNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1‘'PUNCT_5 lookedpunct
2IfifSCONJ_5 lookedmark
3youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs5 lookednsubj
4hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 lookedaux
5lookedlookVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part19 saidccomp
6atatADP_9 Beanstalkcase
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 Beanstalkdet
8giganticgiganticADJDegree=Pos9 Beanstalkamod
9BeanstalkBeanstalkPROPNNumber=Sing5 lookedobl
10andandCCONJ_13 wonderedcc
11onlyonlyADV_13 wonderedadvmod
12stupidlystupidlyADV_13 wonderedadvmod
13wonderedwonderVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 lookedconj
14aboutaboutADP_15 itcase
15ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs13 wonderedobl
16,,PUNCT_5 lookedpunct
17’'PUNCT_5 lookedpunct
18sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 saidnsubj
19saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
20,,PUNCT_19 saidpunct
21‘'PUNCT_25 leftpunct
22IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs25 leftnsubj
23shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin25 leftaux
24havehaveAUXVerbForm=Inf25 leftaux
25leftleaveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part19 saidconj
26youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs25 leftiobj
27wherewhereADVPronType=Rel30 placedadvmod
28misfortunemisfortuneNOUNNumber=Sing30 placednsubj:pass
29hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin30 placedaux
30placedplaceVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass25 leftadvcl
31youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs30 placedobj
32,,PUNCT_34 restoringpunct
33onlyonlyADV_34 restoringadvmod
34restoringrestoreVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part19 saidadvcl
35herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs36 cownmod:poss
36cowcowNOUNNumber=Sing34 restoringobj
37totoADP_39 mothercase
38youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs39 mothernmod:poss
39mothermotherNOUNNumber=Sing34 restoringobl
40..PUNCT_19 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1look a condition, not said to happenpast · perfectyouat the gigantic Beanstalkvn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at beanstalk=Theme
2wonder speech: askpastyou not said hereabout Beanstalk; stupidly propertyvn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about it=Stimulus
3say speech: assertpastFairyvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4leaveshould · perfectIyouvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
5placepast · perfect · passivemisfortunevn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme you=Destination
6restoregerundFairy not said hereFairy's cowyour mothervn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent cow=Theme to mother=Recipient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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